The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO OALL, FRIDAY,: MARCH 20, 1896. CHARLES. M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor- SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pafly and Sunday CALL, one week, bycarrier..$0.18 6.00 3.00 snd Sunday CALT, three months by mail 1.50 and Sunday CALL, one mofith, by mail. .65 Eanday CavLy, one year, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, 0De year, by mail 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Selephone. . Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stree Celephone......... cetee Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open untll 8:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 6W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open antil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 0'cloci. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Roems 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. FRIDAY. MARCH 20, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. It is to be a campaign for a sound tariff, sound money and a sound party, The great strike for higher wages will occur on election day and hit the Demo- cratic party. The Junta was content at first to call ita walkover, but has now about concluded to make it a razzle-dazzle. During all the European controversies of the year the Czar has been silent and yet nobody has called him a clam. It is now clear the movement for a revo- lution inNicaragua was only an oscilla- tion. It has begun to swing backward. When Congress takes up the Nicaragua canal bill it will have on its hands a good thing and the people will begin to sing “Push it along.” The only thing that gives vitality to the talk of renominating Cleveland is the de- sire of so many Democrats to have another Iick at him, Dan Lamont is the only member of the present Cabinet who has not been caught ignoring the law and trying to boss things like a dictator. Senta Cruz has captured a man who vosed as a doctor and practiced chicken- stealing. What kind of a ‘“pathy’’ does the profession call that? In marching an expedition up the Nile the British may have a secret hope that they can relieve Italy by relieving her of her African possessions. While the censure of Bayard was post- poned a long time Republican sentiment has not cooled off during the wait. Itis going to be a genuine roast. It is reported the conflicting interests in the railroad camp have about reached an agreement and we may now look out for lively work on the rush line. I his present feclings continue until the meeting of the Chicago Convention, Gavin McNab will see to it that Democracy is not without a Presidential candidate. As it is certain the painters’ strike isto end sooner or later, it would seem there ought to be sagacity enough on both sides to find a way of ending it at once. Sending money to the Armenians is only an indirect way of sending it to the Turks. The best way to help the sufferers would be to send an ultimatum to the Sultan. If the report be true that 15,000 Chris- tians have risen at Beyrout and warned the Moslems to defend themselyes the Tarkish sick man may be about to get his right medicine at last. General Hubbard’s plan of settling the Pacific roads debt by funding it for fifty years at 2 per cent may have some im- provements on the Huntington plan, but they are not visible tg the public. SR i As it is announcea that General Garcia, General Collazo, General Hernandez and General Estrada are on their way to join the Cubans we may look for a general movement along the whole line, Those New York mugwumps who are declaring that Morton is handicapped by Platt’s support should explan what they think Morton would succeed in doing if the Platt men were not with him. The fight against the funding scheme is directed toward no particular bill, but aims at the defeat of any and every measure that fails to provide for an honest enforcement of the law and a foreclosure of the mortgage. Kaiser William has sent a cup to be competed for at the Cowes regatta, and in the absence of any chance to get the America cup the British may regard it as a consolation stake and take it with many cheers. With the close of February the Gorman tariff had been in operation eighteen montks, working in that time a deficit of $75,000,000 with no set-off save several cal- culations of Mr. Carlisle that it would next month yield a surplus. From the rate at which Cuban sympa- thizers are succeeding in sending men, arms and munitions of war to the island it is evident that if General Weyler doesn’t strike a decisive blow very quickly he will never be able to strike it at all. A bill bas been proposed in Parliament requiring all meat exposed for sale to bear marks showing whether it is a home, a colonial or a foreign product. This of course will enable buyers to know home products and patronize them if they wish, The next step will be protection straight out. Reports from the East make it fairly cer- tain that the vote in the St. Louis Conven- tion will be $o divided that the Pacific Coast by sending unpledged delegates will hold the balance of power and be able to nominate a President favorable to Western interests and devoted to the upholding of this great section of the Union. The House Committee on Banks and Banking has reported favorably the Brosius bill permitting the establishment of National banks in towns of 4000 in- habitants or under with a capital of $20,000, and if the bill passes it_will prob- ably have a good effect by making the money market easier in small towns and relieving them from dependency on the larger money centers, THE CRISIS AT HAND. According to tie latest reports from Washington the managers of the various imterests involved in the.Union and the Central Pacific roads have about reached an agreement as to the terms on which chey wish the debis to the Government funded. This means, of course, that the critical moment of the contest is at hand. At any day a bill approved by the railroad lobby may be adopted by the Pacific Roads Cemmittee, reported to the House and pressed for immediate passage by all the forces which the combined roads can mus- ter at Washington. While the exact form the agreement be- tween the various railroad mansgers will take is not eertain, enough is known to justify the conclusion that it will not be widely different from the plan which Mr. Huntington has favored all along. It may not fund the debt for a century with in- terest at1 per cent for ten years and 2 per cent for the remaining ninety, as that job is too hig for even a railroad lobby to un- dertake. It is sure, however, to grant to the defaulting roads such terms as will en- able Mr. Huntington and his colleagues to evade their debts and continue their mo- nopoly for more than the lifetime of this generation. 1t is fortunate in this crisis that the op- ponents of the monopoly have been care- ful to ask no more than the honest en- forcement of the law against the railroads exactly as it would be enforced against the humblest citizen who owed money to the Government. If there were now a scatter- ing fight, or any difference of aim or an- tagonism of purpose among the defenders of the cause of the Pacitic Coast, the vic- tory of the monopoly would be assured. The great battle can be won only by the exercise of the strength that results from unity and harmony. We can draw auguries of victory from the fact that the California delegation is virtually solid in opposition to refunding, and that the strong men in it are fighting vigorously for the people. The struggle has now been so long pro- tracted that a fairly comprehensive cam- paign of education at Washington has been carried out by the advocates of law and public welfare against the agents of the boodle scheme and the supporters of monopoly. The contest, we have every reason to believe, is almost won. If the scheme can be beaten at this session of Congress it will be easier still to beat it at the next, and the end of the long-exacting monopoly will be at hand. THE NEW OANAL BILL The telegraphic report of the bill pre- pared by the sub-committee on the Nica- ragua canal of the House Commerce Com- mittee gives very meager particulars, but they seem to apply admirably to the situ- ation. The measure has first to receive the approval of the full committee before submission to the House, ana it may re- ceive important changes. In its present form it is evidently the product of very careful study and undoubtedly was drawn to avoid the evil consequences which have arisen from Government aid of railroads, while at the same time it secures control ofthe canal by the United States, and yet avoids the proposition of Government ownerzhip. It provides for the reorganization of the Maritime Canal Company and authorizes it to issue $100,000,000 in bonds, of which $7,000,000 shall be held, by the company to reimburse it for its expenditures already made. The Government guarantees the bonds and protects itself by an issue of $100,000,000 in shares, to be held in the Na- tional treasury, and erects additional se- curity by requiring a first mortgage, by appointing ten of the fifteen directors and by requiring that the net earnings of the canal shall be placed in a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the bonds. These are ‘to bear interest at 3 per cent. The length of time they are to run is not men- tioned in the telegram. The scheme for the protection of the Government seems ampie, 2nd at the same time the company and the governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica have representa- tion through the five directors allotted to them. As we are to have ten directors the volitical as well as the commercial inter- ests of this country will be completely guarded, as well as those of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. No such scandals arising from construction as were disclosed in the operations of the Credit Mobilier and the Contract and Finance Company will be possible, as the bill provides that the canal shall be constructed under the supervision of the War Department. It is curious to note the effect which the fight over the railroad funding bill must have had in the framing of this bill. Every one of its provisions aimed to secure the tinancial interests of the Government and the commercial interests of the coun- try seems to have been the direct product of the wisdom acquired from'the errors committed in subsidizing ‘the overland roads. Whatever may be the fate of this bill it is consoling to reflect that the fund- ing bill struggle has had an educating ef- fect of so conspicuous value. VANDERBILT COMING. Although Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey M. Depew announce that their visit to California will be for pleasure only, it is not forgotten that this is an unusual time of the year for private-car pleasure trips to-California, that as a member of the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific it is difficult to see how Mr. Depew can be spared at present unless for some urgent reason, that the prosperity of the Union Pacific is an important considera- tion for the Chicago and Northwestern road, that the traffic of the Union Pacific and consequently of the Chicago and Northwestern has been seriously injured by the diversion of traffic from the Central Pacific to the Sunset route of the South- ern Pacific, and that there is current be- lief in Washington that the.Vanderbiit and Gould interests stand ready to bid on the Union and Central Pacific if the Gov- ernment offers them for sale in foreclosure of 1ts mortgage against them. Theseform an interesting series of coincidences. It seems quite likely that the railroad situation in the West has recently come to be better understood in the East than formerly and that the possibilities for de- velopment in this region might have be- come alluring to railroad owners who understand the science of using railroads for that purpose and hence for prospective rather than present gain. Mr. Depew in- genuously declares that as a member of the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific he wants to see that it is in a posi- tion to compete fairly with the other trans- continental lines, and it is difficult to see how fair competition can exist under the diversion plan of the Southern Pacific. His remarks about there being already more overland lines than can prosper with the volume of traffic which they have have to be read in the light of his interest in the Uhion Pacific and Mr. Vanderbilt's interest in the Chicago and Northwestern, not to mention a perfectly natural disin- clination under the circumstances to set too high a value on the aided roads. ‘Whatever may be the pleasure which lthne gentlemen may extract from a pri- | vate-car trip to the coast, they cannot keep their eyes closed to the possibilities for development which exist, and which could be made effective. In any event, this will be an excellent opportunity for our people to inform them concerning many things of which they must be ignor- ant. With their enormous machinery in the East for assuring the settlement of California they might be an exceedingly important addition to the developing forces of the State. OUR HARBOR DANGERS. The sub-committee of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce which had charge of an investigation of the dangers repre- sented by the hidden rocks of the harbor has made a report filling a pamphlet, but the soul of it all lies in this paragraph: ““I'he reason for this helplessness of pilots to save vessels from these treacherous rocks is found in the peculiarly thick fogs which beset the entrance to this harbor, and the peculiarly uncertain but strong currents which continually sweep through the bay and its approaches.” That is to say, itis not a simple question of hidden rocks, which careful navigation might avoid, but one of concurrent conditions which make the rocks dangerous. Invariably the first sign of a fog occurs in the channel connacting the bay with the ocean. The foghorns are often blow- ing while the sun shines in San Francisco. These fogs hug the water and are all the more dangerous for that reason. As the channel is very narrow for the immense volume of water that the tides urge through it, and as its sides ave so irregu- lar as to make innumerable bewildering eddies and cross currents, the flow is swift and exceedingly complicated. For hardly any two successive days is it alike, as the varying winds which sweep up the channel introduce an element of uncer- tainty and render an exact knowledge of the currents im possible. In avoiding the sunken rocks in thick weather the vesselsincoming and outgoing necessarily crowd as much as possible into the center of the channel. In the absence of rocks there would be greater freedom. To be within a mile of one of these con- cealed dangers is to run the risk of a wreck. This explains the numerous collisions which occur. Hence the rocks are indi- rectly as well as directly dangerous. The danger is multiplied by the fogs and tidal currents. The fact that nearly all the wrecks which have occurred resulted from a combination of these conditions should afford a sufficient reason for the prompt removal of the rocks. The local weather-office recently sub- mitted, or announced that it was prepared to submit, to the Washington authorities a plan for foretelling fogs. It should not be a difficult meteorological problem and its adoption would be of great service to local navigation. It often happens that a fog appears suddenly and entraps a vessel in the channel, and that the pilot might have waited if he had known beforehand that a fog was expected. But this sugges- tion.should not make us lose sight of the main fact that were it nov for the hidden rocks the fog would not be so dangerous and that the removal of them would reduce the need of fog predictions. HURRYING THE ROAD. The announcement made by Chief En- gineer Story that the Valley road will reach Fresno in August, and thus be ready to bandle its share of this year’s crop, presents the prospect of immediate earn- ings this year. Thisisa very uncommon state of affairs in railroad building. It means that a road built through a settled region will not have to wait for business, but will at once enjoy benefits which are usually slow in accruing. Besides this fact in its favor it has the additional one of being a welcome competing line offer- ing inducements which have never been hitherto extended, and enjoying the sym- pathy and confidence of the people. 1t bas already constructed thirty-five miles of track and has three locomotives of the most improved pattern and 150 freight- cars. These undoubtedly will be founa inadequate for the heavy traffic . which it will be called upon to handle, but the stockholders will cheerfully pay assess- ments which promise returns so imme- diate and profitable. It will be a great day for the San Joa- quin Valley when this road enters Fresno, and doubtless it will be the occasion of one of the most enthusiastic celebrations ever held in California. Many growers will probably hold their crops for the new road. The settlement of the valley will proceed rapidly and the earnings of the road constantly increase. The pleasure of contemplating these prospects is enhanced by the news that a strong movement is on foot to break the Pacific Mail and Panama Railway monopoly by putting on a line of steamers to be operated in connection with the Tehuantepec Railway. NEW CUBAN STAMPS. The first issue of Cuban stamps was made in New York City last week and were eagerly purchased by collectors. The stamp shown in the cut is twice the actual size, the original beipg a trifie longer than our fwo-cent stamp, They were printed by the New York Bank Note Company, in denominations of 2, 5,10 and 25 cents. “All are of the same design, but differ in color. The design 18 a shield with a rising sun occu- pying the upper balf, a palm tree in the lower right corner, and bars intended to represent the blue and white bars in the Cuban_ flag In the lower left corner. The key, with the land- scape depicted in the stamp, make up, wit! the other features, the escutcheon of the Cu- ban revolutionist party. Two-centstamps are brown, 5-cent blue, 10-cent orange and 25- cent green. The Cuban cent is equal in value to_our cent., 5 In case the Spanish power is overthrown in the island the stamps will be adonted as the national stamp. They are now of no practical service excepting in certain parts ot Cuba where the revolutionists.are in power, and where they maintain & mafl service of their own. Presperity in Sugar 'Bn: Culture, Chino Champion. Ten new sugar factories in California would mean more for the prosperity of the agri- cultural interests of the State than any other industry we have. And this prosperity would not be confined to the agriculturists, but ‘would permeate branch of business and trade in the State. lend his infiuence, S e s e Very elCour: 0 u- gar mdnllry." ARYIAY AROUND THE CORRIDORS. John McDonough, a pioneer of Cascade Locks on the Columbia River, where the United States Government is cutting a wonderful canal through the rocks, is &t the Lick. Cascades, or Cascade Locks, as it is also known, is the place on the great river of the West known {o-the traveler Captain Bonne- ville and the intrepid men who followed him, by the Indian name of Wishram. It was at this place that the hordes of Indiacs on that part of the frontier swarmed and ex- acted tribute in the form of tolls for allowing travelers to pass. There was no éscaping the Indians at this place and they used theadvan- tage for all it was worth. Every reader of Washington Irving’s story of the exploits of the brave Bonneville will remember ‘the fearful rapids 8t that place. It was to make a way through the long stretch of rocks for steam- boats and thus extend navigation up the mighty Columbia that the Government began work agood many years ago. Different con- tracts were given and large sums were ex- pended, but the work required to be done was of John McDonough of Cascades. such & herculean character that in all the years it has not been finished. However, the situation is different now. Daylight is be- ginning to dawn. ““We begin to see the end of the long battle against the rocks,” said Mr. McDonough last evening. “The last contract was given by the Government- to J. G. and 1. N. Day of San Francisco for $1,600,000, the canal to be com- pleted in three and a half years. The work is pretty well on now. “‘The open way in the rocks, which is known as the Cascades ship canal, is ninety feet wide and three-quarters of a mile long. Ithas enor- mous steel gates in it, run by hydraulic power, and transcending in size and cost anything be- fore known in the world. “Each great gate is ninety-seven feet high and ninety-two feet wide and cost $80,000. Even in Europe, so long inhabited and with so many eanals, there is nothing like them. As soon as this canal is completed steamers can go.up the Columbia as far as The Dalles. “When the Celilo Rapids, three miles above The Dalles, are improved, the great river will be open to Lewiston, Idaho, 1300 -miles above Astoria, which is at the mouth. All the grain, wool and other products of the Palouse and other adjoining counties may then be brought down the river on steamers. “This means a great deal for people Who live in the valley ot the Columbia and contiguous toit. Besides this Eddy, Hammond & Co. are now pushing the construction of their rail- road and have 500 men at work grading the first ten miles of it from Astoria. The town aforesaid the night before I left voted terminal facilities for the road, which is to run from that city to Portland. It begins to look bright in that part of the country.” Mr. McDonough is here for the treatment of his eyes, which have been weak for some time. He raised the famous horse Tim Murphy who has made such important winnings on the tracks here. Mr. McDonough has liad more or less to do with horse and cattle growing ever since he settled in that great livéstock region. He will be here several weeks. George W. Fitch, who is connected with the business department of the New York cartoon weekly, Puck, 1s at the Grand. Mr. Fitch was formerly & writer on Puck. Later he had eharge of the paper’s ex- hibit at the Chicago Exposition. He is here for a brief stay and will soon leave for South- ern California. “I think the greatest cartoonist in the world, now,” he said, “is probably W.A. Rogers of Frank Leslie's. Since the death of Joseph Kep- pler of Puck and of Mr. Gillam of Judge I don’t think there is anybody equal to him. He was formerly on Puck, and I don’t suppose our peo- ple would have consented to part with him had it been foreseen that Mr. Keppler would die. “I have been surprised to see what an inter- est California takes in comic papers, such as ours. - San Francisco is a big ecity, with big broad-gauge ideas, and don’t much care one ‘way or the other what anybody may think of her, And that’s the reason I like it.” WHO GOT OUR GOLD? Over the signature “John Bull,” the follow- ing suggestive parody appeared in a recent issue of the American Economist: Who Gets our Gold ¥ 1, sald John Bull, ‘Through Democracy's pull, T get your gold. Who'll see us die,? LI, landJ, Came England’s glad ory, T'll see you die. Who'll take our trade ? With good’s cheaply made, While your industries fade, Tll take your trade. Who'll close our mllls ? With my under-priced bills, Made to fill British tills, . T'll close your mills. Who'll gell us Wool ? 1 said John Bull, r L‘IIY, Comb and Pull, Tl Sell You Wool. Who'll 8hip Us Shoddy ? That's just my Hobby, I'm King of Shoddy, Tl ship you Shoddy. Who'll Sell Us Glass ¢ T've got the brass To sell chnlr streaked glass, L'l sell you glass. Who'll Pay Our Labor * Not I, my dear neighbor, 1 use ‘only cheap labor, T'il not pay High Labor. ‘Who Robbed Our Boys ? 1 robbed your boys - Of their last Christmas toys, I robbed your boys. ‘Whose Fortune’s Made ? ‘While your fortunes fade By your Yankee Free Trade, Then my fortune's Made. Who's living in Clover ? Ask Carlisle and Grover, They seud the “dust” over, 'm living in Clover. Who Got Our Gold ? Well, now, I've been told ‘That for goods that I've sold, T've Gol your Gold. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Again. Coliax Sentinel. The Southern Pacific is showing its cloven foot again. It Will Be a Popular Song. Placerville Nugget. In another year the popular song of the dsy will be Fritz Emmet's famous ‘‘Sadly the Cuckoo Is Calling Now.” A Pingre Suggestion. San Luis Obispo Reasener. Sinte the Senate’s bluster on the Cuban ques- tion war news is somewhat stale. Sul l& we. . stop hunting fights now and go to The Spanish Belligerents. Los Angeles Times. If the stoning of consulates in Spain con- tinues it may be necessary to a state jerency there-if not in Cuba. ey The Anti-English Press. ‘Woodland Mail. Bramwell Booth of London has issued a manifesto that will have a tendency to greatly stren; n Lis brother’s American Army. In it he warned the American uot‘)&ugnimi what he termed the ‘“‘misrepresentations of the anti- English American press.” This is a cue that the American press will not be long in taking up. PERSONAL. E.J. Hultof Napa is in town. Dr. A. H. Bailey of Santa Cruz is in the City. Judge J. W. Davis of Tulare arrived here yes- terday. William Otto, a business man of Eureks, is in town. John Hood, & merchant of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick. Robert W. Pattin, the capitalist, is at the Cosmopolitan. K. Casper, an electrician of Nevada City, is here on a visit. Tom A. Gorrie, one of the pioneers of Butte, Mont., is on & visit here. Samuel H. Row of Michigan is at the Ocei- dental, accompanied by his wife. A. G. Jackson, an extensive land-owner of North Dakota, is at the Cosmopolitan. T. B. Jackson, a mine-owner of Sonors, Tuol- ‘umne County, is at the Cosmopolitan. E. C. Farnesworth, an attorney of Visalia, ar- rived here yesterday. He is at the Lick. A. 8. White, general ‘manager of the Erie Dispatch line, left last night for the East. J. Riddin, manager of the Chicago Copying Company, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. John Glasson, who is interested in electrical works, mining and other things at Grass Val- ley, is at the Lick. John Mackey, superintendent of the Haggin horse ranch, near Sacremento, arrived here yes- terday and is at the Lick. C. H. Dunbar, clerk of the Supreme Court of Utah, has arrived here on a pleasure trip and will remain several weeks. Ex-Attorney-Gereral Robert M. Clarke of Ne- vada arrived here yesterday from his home in Carson and'1s at the Palace. T. M. Schumacher, general freight agent of 'the Union Pacific in this City, left last night on a trip to Southern California. ‘W. M, Messay, Charles Kilburn and Miss Kil- burn, of Guatemala, arrived here on the City of Sydney yesterday. They are at the Grand. ‘The Rev. Dr. Canon Goode of Nanaimo, B.C., who has been on a visit to Santa Rosaand Petaluma, has returned here, and is at the Oc- cidental. ' Dr. James J. Clark, & leading medical prac- titioner of Washington, D. C., was one of the arrivals here on the steamer Sydney by way of Panama, yesterday. Mrs. C. Lippincott, wife of the noted Phila- delphia book publisher, is at the Palace, ac- companied by Miss Lippincott and Miss Stur- geon of the Quaker city. Manuel Gonzales, one of the wealthiest and most extensive coffee-planters of the Guat- emalan republic, arrived here yesterday on the City of Sydney. He is at the Occidental. John L. Sullivan, the famous ex-champion of the globe in the fistic arena, Paddy Ryan, Eugene 0'Rourke and Parson Davies, also men of renown among fighters, left on the steamer Queen yesterday for Portland. Will A. Peairs of Zanesville, Ohio, who rep- resents & widely advertised patent medicine aund who has traveled extensively over the world, visiting numerous out of the way islands, Africa and other countries, arrived here yesterday. He is to sail across the Pacific again soon. Protessor C. H. Gilbert of the department of zoology in Stanford University and R. C. Mc- Gregor, C. J. Pierson and E. C. Stark, students of the university, returned yesterday atter sev- eral months in Panama and Colombia in col- lecting zoological specimens. They secured many rare and curious things and are highly pleased in every way with the result of their trip. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 19.—Among re- cent arrivals are: H. Azendtand wife, 1. W. Goldman and wife, the ‘Misses Goldman, Mur- ray Hill; B. Price, Jr., Morton; J. Rosenthal, Miss B. Rosenthal, Vendome; R. Howard, Plaza; C. Griffith, Brunswick. Wager Brad- ford, Mrs. Bradford, M. Cooper and Mrs. M. Ginsberg ‘were_among the passengers. who sailed on the steamship St. Paul for Southamp- ton. > ey LADY’S WAIST WITH YOKE FRONT A delightfully simple waist, suitable for the plainest of gowns, and yeta good foundation for elaboration in tha shape of fancy walsts is shown here, It is made with a fitted lining which buttons 1n the front. The full front also hooks invisi- bly in front, the yoke fastening on the left shoulder and armsize. The back is seamless on a tight lining, with fine gathers at the ‘waist line. x As illustrated, it is of blue serge, with trim- mings of black and gilt braid and gilt buckles. A brown mohair gown had a yoke of embroid- ered batiste over pink silk, bright Dresden rib- von furnished the belt and collar and finished the edge of the yoke. * A silk waist of half-inch stripes of black and pale-green had the yoke eui crosswise, the stripes running up and down for the blouse. A pleated ruffle of black chiffon, three inches wide, depended from th:jo €. Wash dresses made after this model are sometimes uniined, except the top of the blouse, depending from a yoke of lining which fastens in the center front,or the blouse is sewn to the yoke itself and tuttons under the arm. A waist of embroidered batiste' was made over & green silk lining. Blue ribbons made 1t a very striking looking garment. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. 8ir Arthur Suilivan receives $3500 for a single song. Mark Twain has become 80 used to Eastern custome that he says he capnot avoid salaam- ing & door at present. Mary Anderson Navarro has declined an offer of more than $100,000 for a brief series of dra- matic performances. She says sheis done with the stage forever, Mr. Gladstone usually has three books in reading at a time, and changes from one to an- other as he thinks his mind has reached the limit of absorption. The late William Boyne of England spent upward of sixty years in collecting more than 80,000 coins. These are all to be sold at Southeby’s, in two batches.. Bulkll.'l profits in his books for the last ten years represents nearly $200,000. Asa writer of what might be called art fiction Ruskin is _still beloved by the English. Bismarck has been paying 900 marks a year out of his own pocket for thirty years to three soldiers who lost their eyesight at Koniggratz. ‘The total amount he has paid to them is 27,000 marks. ‘The poet Cowper’s beautiful garden in Buck- inghamshire, England, was recently sold, with | some adjoining property, for $2400. The sale was by auction. The' purchaser was a butcher who has occupied the land of recent years. Lord Leighton was not a rich man when he dted, in spite of the large sums of money he earned during his lifetime, and his famous house, with ali its art treasures, must be sold at auction. Benjamin Liverman, who died in Minneapo- 1is the other day at tne age of 95, claimed to be the first commercial traveler to go on the road in this country. He traveled for a jewelry- house. The list of ariists upon whom decorations have been conferred by the French Govern- ment during the last year has been made pub- lic in Paris by the Ministers des Beaux Arts. The list was an unusually short one, there being only four names upon it. The only American mentioned was William H. Howe, the cattle painter, of New York, upon whom was conierred the decoration of Officier d’Academie. CURRENT HUMOR. Visitor—Well, Freddy, how many brothers bave you? Freddy—I have one, but my sister Stella has two. “Why, how is that? Who are they?” “Me and my brother.” — Philadelphia In- quirer, Bobby—Popper, what makes them call hard times “a rainy day,” and talk about laying up something for a rainy day? Mr. Ferry—It isgalled that, my son, because on a rainy day there is no dust in sight.—Cin- cionati Enquirer. 8. Peter—Who is that kicking up that row over there? Angel—Oh, it's that free silver man who just came up. He refuses to play on & gold harp. He wants a silver one.—Texas Stitings. Criticus—I don’t believe there’s much differ- ence between genius and insanity. Struggling Author—Oh, yes, there is; the lunatic is at least sure of his board and clothés.—Chips. “You are well fitted for the position, butI should prefer a married man.” “Perhaps we can arrange that. I see you have daughters.”—Life. Spratts—Miss Elder is much older than I thought. Hunker—Impossible! Spratts—Well, I asked her if she had read “ZEsop’s Fables,” and she said she read them ‘When they first came out.—Home Journal. Mrs. Brownslow—Now, Tommy, go and kiss your uncle, or mamma will cane you. Tommy (after a long look at his surly old uncle)—Cane me, ma.—London Tit-Bits. AMSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. YOosEMITE VALLEY—E. W., City. The guar- dian of the Yasemgite Valley is an employe of the State aud hefis paid a salary of $1500 a year. ON THE BRIDGE—W. N. P., Berkeley. “I stood on the bridge at midnight” was written by Longfellow and the music was by Lady Carew. CLEVELAND’S CHILDRI -A. 8., Witch Creek, San Diego County, Cal. The two oldest chil- dren of Fresident Cleveland, Ruth and Esther, are not idiots. SHEENY—G. @)S., Livermore, Cal. Theorigin of the word “sheeny” is not known, but its first ;pglicnlon that is known was to desig- nate a sharp fellow—that is, sharp to drive a bargain, - DURRANT'S SENTENCE—A. 8., Witch Creek, sSan Diego County, Cal. Theodore Durrantwas sentenced to be hanged on the 21st of last Feb- ruary, but he having taken au appesl stayed the execution. % YosEMITE VALLEY—A. 8., Witch Creek, San Diego, Cal. The Yosemite Valley is not “so full of geysers that if you step out of the foot- steps of your guide you will sink into & hot, boiling ma#s above your shoetops.” Books PusLisHED—H. F. 8.. Nevada City, Cal. According to the reports for the year 1895 France leads in tbe numbeg of publications. These show that France ‘published 12,297 books, Great Britain 6368 and the United States 5469. RaGAMUFFIN—F. H.and 8., City. The term ragamuffin is a term generally applied to a. blackguard or dln‘e‘lmmble person. It is de- rived from the English “rag’’ and from the provincial German *‘muffen” (to smell musty). “Shodderdegalion” is probably a corruption | of tatterdemalion, which is & ragged, dirty fellow. ¥ To TAKE UP A LaND Cramv—Reader, City. You can obtain all the information concerning lands that are open to settlement by address- ing the Land Office in the distriet in which the land you would like to settle on is located. The land offices in this State are located at Eureka, Independence, Los - Angeles, Marys- ville, keddlng, Sacramento, San Francisco, Stockton, Susanville and Visalia. MYsTERIOUS WAYS—J. M., Sonora, Cal, The quotation: God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the ses And rides upon the storm, Is from ‘Light Shines Out of Darknass,” by William Cowper, who lived from 1731 to 1800. SAILING VESSEL—W. L. D., Hilisbore, Hill County, Texas. The fastest passage made from San Francisco to New York by sailing vessel was by the Northern Light in 1852. She made the voyage in seventy-five days. She wasin ballast, and the distance sailed was 13,950 miles. The following year the ship Trade Wind sailed between the same ports in the same number of days, but she sailed only 13,610 miles. Moxkey ENGINE—E. G. 8., Livermore, Cal. The term “monkey engine” is one that was originally applied to what is now - termed “donkey” engine. When it came into use to supersede the larger engines the remark was made that it could not do the work because it was no bigger than a monkey; but.when it worked some one added that'it was as strong as a donkey, and from those remarks came the words “monkey” and “donkey’’ engines. The ones who made use of the remarks given are lost to seekers of origin of terms, as no record was kept of them. . THE CENTRAL PaciFic—R. C. D., City. The first of the United States bonds issued to the Central Pacific Company became due January 16, 1895, the remainder to mature at intervals till January 1, 1899. The amount of these bonds issued by the'Government was: To'tha Central Pacific ggf) 855,120; to the Western Pacific Railroad, $1,970,560, making a total of ,855,680, the interest on which, §1,671.- 80 annually, to be added. The assets of the company are rated at $202,491,584 02. The main line from San Francisco to Ogden is 883.23 miles, and the total mileage, including the branches, 15 1254:24 miles. ‘GOLDEN GATE BOULEVARD—W. H., Ciiy. While the recent orderof the Board of Supervisors declares Golden Gate avenue a boulevard and prohibits certain vehicles used in the transpor- tation of goods from passing over-it, it provides that “vehicles carrying goods and merchan- dise to and from residents.on Golden Gute ave- nue shall have the right to enter said avenue todeliver the same on and along either of the streets running at right angles 1o said ave- nue and bounding on_one side the block on which sald huildings of such residents are lo- cated, and depart % either strest bounding said block, but not otherwise.’”” SuccessioN—L. M., Newman, Cal. If a woman marries & divorced man with & number of children, and during their married life the husband and wife accumulate property, it is community property, and is subject to the law of succession, in case of the husband’s death without & will. The law says: 1f the decedent leave a surviving wife and only one child, or the lawtul issue of one child, the propert; in equal shares to the sarviving wife and chiid or issue of such child. 1f he leaves more than one child living, or the lawful Issue of one or more deceased children, one-third goes to the wife and the remaindér in equal shares to his children and to the lawful issue of any deceased child by Tight of Tepresentation. ARREST BY PRIVATE PERSON—D. MeD,, City. The Penal Code of this State on the right of a private person to arrest another, says: A private person may arrest another for a publi oflen';a wm%ma or‘{flampnd in hfs 2 m:: when theé person arrested has commiited a felony, although not in his presence; when a felony bas in been committed, he has reasonable cause for belleving the person arrested (o Dive commit- k. In making an arrest a private person as well as an officer must inform the party of his in- tention to arrest him and the offense for which he proposes to arrest him, unless he is in the actual ccmmission of a crime or is escaping after its edmmission, If the arresting party ‘went beyoud justifiable means in making an a he would be liable for injury inflicted, .and a piisoner in resisting arrest would also be liable for resistance. B FLAG—E. 8. Jr., College Place, Walla Walla County, Wash. In the general acceptation of | the term a flag is & piece of thin, light ubrlo. usually bunting, but sometimes silk or other material, hung from a staff. It may be strétched aczoss a street, fastened by the four corners, and still be called a flag, but a piece ofcloth fastened across a street and”“having painted upon it the representation of a flag is usually called a banner. The use of the word banner as applied to flag is not improper, as for 1nstuncg, “the star.spangled banmer.” A representation of a flag having an advertise- ment printed upon it or attached toit isa desecration of the flag, it makes no difference Whether the representation be paper, cloth or other material. PK'OMXSSORY Nore—C. J.J., City. In the State of Washington the payment and acceptance of interest on a promissory note reiieves the note from the statute of limitation. .The rate of damages to be allowed and paid upon the usual protest for non-payment of a promissory Dote drawn or indorsed in the State of Wash- ington, if payable without the limits of the United States, shall be 10 per cent of the cone fents; but if such is payuble outside of the tate, but within the United States. 5 per cent. Such damages are in lieu o} interest, charges Of protest and all other charges incurred pre- Yylous to and at the time of serving notice ot non-payment; but the holder of such note shall be entitled to demand and receive lawiul nterest on the aggregate of the prineipal and of the charges thereon from the time at whic notice of non-payment shall_have been give , and payment demanded. 7°o legal rate of interest is 7 per cent and the siatute of limit, tion as to notes 1s six years. > % —_— LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. FRENCH FRIGATE SHOALS. SOMETHING ABOUT THESE LONELY ISLETS IN THE Pacrric, A To the Editor of the San Franciseo Cali~Stny On reading in THE CALL the harrowing details of suffering ‘and privations of the wrecked crew of the Mattie T. Dyer on French Frigate Shoals, I thought it would not be amiss at this time to give future navigators in those dan.. gerous waters some ideas regarding this reefl and group of islets. Having made several voye, ages there, surveying the group, inspecting the guano deposits, ete., I feel competent to re. port fuller information that is usually found either in Bowditch or the charts, These 1slands are about twenty-seven miieq] farther west than the old charts place them/ and have been the scene of some twelve or fif- teen wrecks. The reef and shoal are crescents formed, open to the southwest, inside of whick there 1s a lagoon of still water and good an. chorage, as thei are located in the northeast trade winds. The eutside reef is steep, t00, ris- ing abruptly from the deep sca. ‘The breakers dash heavily on this outside barrier and either in the night or day, with a good lookout, cam be seen four miles away. Two or three mil inside of this line ot breakers and also form. ing a erescent are sixteen islets. Near the cens ter of the whole inclosure to thelsouth stands/ an isolated rocky islet, about 150 feet highi and somewhat resembling & ship-under full sail. Ileft some twenty-five Hawaiian natives on summer on these islands, where I erected & cabin, dug a well ten féeet deep and set a whal- er’s trypot. The following winter I returned and found the natives fat'and lazy. In the meantime they had captured about 1000 hair seals, 300 pounds of seal oil, & quantity of shark’s-liver oil and sharks’ fins, which at that time brought 25 cents per pound among the Chinese, together with a good lot of wreckage from the unfortunate vessels lost there. The waters abound with excellent fish of many varieties. The food supply is on an in. exhaustible scale, green turtle, wild fowl and their eggs being found without limit. Ifthe wrecked mariners had talen a little more time in looking around they would have found it a very cheap boarding-place during these times of depression. Probably the Gov- ernment would have eent the Charleston for them in time for the next election. R. BROOKS, Vacaville, March 19, 1896. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. 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His city friend sighed. “A large hat, with four ostrich feathers, an enameled buckle, a cluster of roses and several jeweled hatpins,” he said, “Besure and take your opera-glasses, for then you can distinguish the minor details of the trimmings.”—New York Tribune. MARCH, April, May are the best months to purify the blood and buiid up the system. Don’t neglect such an important matter. Take Hood's Sarsapa- xilla with the advent of spring. —_————— CoRoNADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sofy. and mild, and is entirely free from the mists coms mon further north. 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